Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) A Quiet Drink (1975) User Reviews

Un-typical episode

[keysam-02610 · 7/10 · 28 June 2022]

In this episode we're suddenly presented with a cast of new characters we've never seen before nor will again and for me, it doesn't entirely work. It just doesn't seem like Last of the Summer Wine, more like an average sitcom from the time.

The main plot is driven by Clegg, once again showing off the imagination that so often in SW powers the tall tales such as the ones he'll use in years to come to wind Howard up. Clegg comes up with the ruse to force Mouse to buy a round. Sadly we never see Mouse's reaction to being asked to pay. I would imagine he at least tries to refuse, but presumably if he doesn't pay up, the publican will bar him.

It's entertaining enough but not really a top episode.

The tight mouse and the wig.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 4 June 2023]

Compo, Cleggy and Blamire head to the local pub for a few drinks, enjoying his usual freebies is Mouse, the guys set a mission, to get Mouse to buy a round of drinks.

I'll credit Roy Clarke for presenting something very different, Quiet Drink bizarrely doesn't feel like an episode of Last of The Summer Wine, it feels so out of place, it doesn't follow any of the rules, and doesn't have the usual format, instead it is exactly as the title suggests, a Quiet Drink.

Lots of fun, new characters, ones that we've not seen before, including that tight fisted Mouse and drunken Tina. Tina had to be the best of the bunch, she was great fun, Jean Burgess was good, a shame she didn't return to the part.

Funniest sequence had to be the moment with the wig, in spite of the reference to the late and disgraced Jimmy Saville.

Not on The US DVD release, that's a shame, it's not a classic, but it's very different, and has a couple of funny sequences.

7/10.

Your round next

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 8 June 2016]

This one features actor Frank Middlemiss in an uncredited role as the barman. There is less hi-jinks in this one but a clever ruse by the trio who visit the Clothier's Arms and try to get a regular called Mouse renowned for never buying a drink just to do that.

Various people turn up in the pub all having a little moment to shine including Mouse and a woman called Tina who turns up with her wheeler dealer husband. Tina is determined to get drunk and it is her drunken escapades that give the trio an idea to con Mouse.

A nice episode with a focus on several other minor characters and I liked the pay off as Mouse rushes off to see what has happened to his car.